TAX ID VALIDATION MADE SIMPLE
Global tax ID lookup and validation
Instantly validate tax ID numbers from around the globe to ensure you’re charging the correct tax rate for every transaction.
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EXPLAINER
All you need to know about Tax ID validation in 90 seconds!
Having accurate and up-to-date information about your customers’ and sellers’ tax status helps you avoid being held liable for any unpaid sales tax, VAT or GST.
WHY USE FONOA LOOKUP?
Instant, accurate tax ID validation
Ensuring the accuracy of your customers' tax IDs is crucial to managing compliance. Without verification, you may be charging the wrong amount of tax, providing a poor customer experience, and be liable for any missing taxes. With Fonoa Lookup you can:
Recover indirect taxes charged on domestic purchases
Confirm if your platform sellers charged tax correctly.
Confirm your customer’s tax status
To calculate tax on cross-border sales, you must know if your buyer is a business or a consumer - and that they've got a valid/active tax ID.
Know the right tax treatment of your transactions, any time
If you’re a marketplace, you must know if your sellers are registered for taxes before making calculations on their behalf.
Ensure your Data Sharing report contains valid tax IDs
Affected platforms must confirm tax ID numbers before fulfilling their reporting obligations (e.g. DAC7).
Download our guide
The Essential Guide to Tax Number Validation
Validating tax ID numbers (or TINs) is an increasingly important step for digital businesses looking to stay compliant, ensuring companies collect and remit the right amount of tax.
Unfortunately, businesses that do not validate TINs are often overcharging or undercharging their clients, leading to non-compliance – and unhappy customers.
This must-read guide for tax teams outlines the:
- Many reasons companies are choosing to validate TINs
- Challenges and critical limitations that make validation difficult
- Steps tax teams can take to properly validate their customers’ TINs
Download guideUnfortunately, businesses that do not validate TINs are often overcharging or undercharging their clients, leading to non-compliance – and unhappy customers.
This must-read guide for tax teams outlines the:
- Many reasons companies are choosing to validate TINs
- Challenges and critical limitations that make validation difficult
- Steps tax teams can take to properly validate their customers’ TINs
THE FULL PACKAGE
Key benefits
Access accurate data
Use VIES and national databases worldwide to get the most accurate tax data on the market.
Easy batch processing
Submit batch tax ID checks and get instant responses.
Reduce stress from audit requests
Keep a record of the numbers you've validated in the past and access your full audit trail.
Run transactions with confidence
Automatically validate tax ID numbers at your checkout page for instant and accurate tax treatment on your digital transactions.
Receive support when you need it
Get world-class support for tax calculations in any country you trade in.
API integration
Integrate quickly and easily with your existing systems with API access.
Clean-up tax IDs automatically
Automate the collection and clean up of your customers' tax IDs with a single integration into your sign-up flow or checkout page.
Global coverage
Validate tax IDs in every market you operate in - available in 96+ countries with additional jurisdictions available upon request.
PLUG & PLAY
Automated, streamlined tax ID validations in one centralized location
Validate tax numbers one-by-one or in a batch.
Access your validation history and respond to audit requests through our easy-to-use interface.
Validate over 50,000 numbers at once for periodic and
ad-hoc checks.
ad-hoc checks.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING
Fonoa allows Uber to be able to validate taxpayer status both in VIES, and in the national databases across the EU, allowing us to have a complete picture over the taxpayer status of our supplier base.
Tax Tech & Operations Manager, Uber
OUR CUSTOMERS
Who is Fonoa Lookup for?
Any business which trades outside of their country will know the pain of working out with consumption taxes. It’s a burden which usually falls on the tax team, but you shouldn’t have to face it alone. Whether you work for a SaaS business, SME or a global enterprise - choose automation and take the hassle out of tax compliance.
CHALLENGES
What can go wrong if I don’t validate tax ID numbers?
Charging the wrong amount of tax.
You’re at risk of reducing your profit margins. And it may cause issues with local tax authorities.
Poor customer experience.
Approving tax incorrectly can result in customer complaints and time spent on unwinding transactions (and correcting invoices)
Liable for missing taxes.
You’re expected to carry out a base level of due diligence. In many cases, this includes tax identification numbers validation. Failing to do so can make you liable for any missing taxes.
Learn more about how you can automate tax ID validation and ensure the correct tax rate for every transaction.
Learn more about how you can automate tax ID validation and ensure the correct tax rate for every transaction.
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